Wow, HDDs just went price crazy in the last couple weeks.
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Wow, HDDs just went price crazy in the last couple weeks. Drives I bought a Month ago are now hundreds of dollars more.
The predictions of the storage apocalypse are all accurate.
@thedarktangent damn near all "spinning rust" drives at my local tech shop are out of stock. (there's a few 24 TB NAS drives, but even those are showing single-digit quantities)
Definitely concerning.
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Wow, HDDs just went price crazy in the last couple weeks. Drives I bought a Month ago are now hundreds of dollars more.
The predictions of the storage apocalypse are all accurate.
@thedarktangent The technofeudalists are trying to price individuals, families, SMBs, and smaller organizations out of the market, in order to force everyone permanently into renting compute time and storage from them, and to donate all our data to their slopware training in the process.
It will take an organized international campaign, comparable to the model advocated by @pluralistic at #39C3, to forcibly counteract this. Ultimately, we'll need to restore competition in our IT parts supply chains. That may require state-level investment by economic peers of the US and China, which itself may require sustained organized civic engagement.
Meanwhile, in the USA (and elsewhere, but especially there), everything that can be done to reduce demand for technofeudalist corporations' products and services, hence everything that could expedite insolvency of the #genAI sector, would help return affordability to PC parts.
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Wow, HDDs just went price crazy in the last couple weeks. Drives I bought a Month ago are now hundreds of dollars more.
The predictions of the storage apocalypse are all accurate.
@thedarktangent shit, didn't realise the slow storage was also in danger. Just checked my local marketplace and 16tb hdds are 25% (more than 100€) up compared to October 2025 🥲
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@thedarktangent The technofeudalists are trying to price individuals, families, SMBs, and smaller organizations out of the market, in order to force everyone permanently into renting compute time and storage from them, and to donate all our data to their slopware training in the process.
It will take an organized international campaign, comparable to the model advocated by @pluralistic at #39C3, to forcibly counteract this. Ultimately, we'll need to restore competition in our IT parts supply chains. That may require state-level investment by economic peers of the US and China, which itself may require sustained organized civic engagement.
Meanwhile, in the USA (and elsewhere, but especially there), everything that can be done to reduce demand for technofeudalist corporations' products and services, hence everything that could expedite insolvency of the #genAI sector, would help return affordability to PC parts.
@deFractal @thedarktangent @pluralistic Wasn't that what Google tried to do with the Chromebooks?
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@deFractal @thedarktangent @pluralistic Wasn't that what Google tried to do with the Chromebooks?
@marcoxa @thedarktangent @pluralistic Pretty much, but now the broligarchs are trying to force it on everyone. They really don't like taking "no" for an answer.
Indeed, that one thing—categorical unwillingness to respect others' refusal of consent—is the defining characteristic in common to every one of them. Despite how some viewers understandably took offence, Louis Rossmann characterized the you'll-own-nothing CEOs' mentality exactly correctly.
No wonder they bought the US government for the rapist-in-chief.
#technofeudalism #rightToRepair #rightToOwn #monopoly #enshittification
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Wow, HDDs just went price crazy in the last couple weeks. Drives I bought a Month ago are now hundreds of dollars more.
The predictions of the storage apocalypse are all accurate.
@thedarktangent I'm dreading my old laptop dying... 😞
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Wow, HDDs just went price crazy in the last couple weeks. Drives I bought a Month ago are now hundreds of dollars more.
The predictions of the storage apocalypse are all accurate.
@thedarktangent
Yea... It's not looking good. This is for a 1TB NVME drive. -
@thedarktangent shit, didn't realise the slow storage was also in danger. Just checked my local marketplace and 16tb hdds are 25% (more than 100€) up compared to October 2025 🥲
@hotsause @thedarktangent I bought some 18TB drives this last summer, they’re almost 50% more expensive today.
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@thedarktangent The technofeudalists are trying to price individuals, families, SMBs, and smaller organizations out of the market, in order to force everyone permanently into renting compute time and storage from them, and to donate all our data to their slopware training in the process.
It will take an organized international campaign, comparable to the model advocated by @pluralistic at #39C3, to forcibly counteract this. Ultimately, we'll need to restore competition in our IT parts supply chains. That may require state-level investment by economic peers of the US and China, which itself may require sustained organized civic engagement.
Meanwhile, in the USA (and elsewhere, but especially there), everything that can be done to reduce demand for technofeudalist corporations' products and services, hence everything that could expedite insolvency of the #genAI sector, would help return affordability to PC parts.
The telephone monopoly used to use all rented equipment. People chafed at that, and the phone company wasn't half as evil and intrusive as...whatever you call this behemoth.
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@thedarktangent The technofeudalists are trying to price individuals, families, SMBs, and smaller organizations out of the market, in order to force everyone permanently into renting compute time and storage from them, and to donate all our data to their slopware training in the process.
It will take an organized international campaign, comparable to the model advocated by @pluralistic at #39C3, to forcibly counteract this. Ultimately, we'll need to restore competition in our IT parts supply chains. That may require state-level investment by economic peers of the US and China, which itself may require sustained organized civic engagement.
Meanwhile, in the USA (and elsewhere, but especially there), everything that can be done to reduce demand for technofeudalist corporations' products and services, hence everything that could expedite insolvency of the #genAI sector, would help return affordability to PC parts.
@deFractal @thedarktangent @pluralistic Jeff Bezos talking about how some brewery used to make its own electricity & talking about how everyone used to do that. My dude just discovered there was a time when the means of production weren't homogenous.
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